Carina Seth Andersson’s quietly thoughtful works in glass and ceramics always offer something unexpected. She moves effortlessly between design, art and craft, and her works are included in the collections of several European museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. In 2024, Seth Andersson received the Prince Eugen Medal. With the Cube glass vase, which she designed for Fogia in 2018, she evokes wonder by playing with the proportions. This year, Cube has been revitalised with a new colour palette.
In addition to black, green and clear glass, Cube is now available in Mocha, Ochre, Linen, and Pink. It is made by highly skilled glassblowers at Skruf Glassworks in Småland, Sweden. The fact that Cube is produced by hand is clearly evident, as no two vases are completely identical. This applies not least to the way the colours appear. There is something archaic about Cube. The sense of a fleeting moment in time turned solid and eternal. This has to do with several of the vase’s aspects: its simple shape, and the glass itself, as a material, yielded from an interaction of the basic elements of fire, air, earth and water. Carina Seth Andersson believes it might also have to do with the object category Cube belongs to: “There’s something utterly primordial about vessels as objects.”
Glass is a material that Carina Seth Andersson has truly mastered. She describes it as complex: precious, yet commonplace; solid, yet liquid; fragile, yet durable. In principle, a glass object can last forever. On the other hand, it can shatter into a thousand pieces in a moment.
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